During a press conference held on June 10, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, John Fees, CEO McDermott International, introduced the mPowerTM modular reactor and described its potential for making a positive impact on American job creation, manufacturing strength, and clean energy development.
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This article originally appeared in issue number 358 of Fuel Cycle Week dated January 6, 2010. It is reprinted here with permission. By Rod Adams, Special to Fuel Cycle Week To Americans the trade name for the China Ocean Shipping Co. sounds like the big-box competitor to Sam’s Club. But COSCO may soon become a…
Analytics Graph for the Atomic Insight Blog I just checked my Google Analytics stats for the past month. Interestingly enough, most of the increase in visits is due to a single day and most of the visits on that day went directly to a single post instead of to the blog front page. Guess which…
There is no doubt that there will be some effort to fight against any new nuclear power plants here in the US. There are people nearing retirement age whose entire adult lives have been spent in the professional battle to slow the development of nuclear fission based power plants. There was an article published in…
Sometimes I have to let my true colors shine. I just spent the afternoon watching Navy break a 43 game losing streak against Notre Dame. 46-44 in triple overtime. For any international readers, I apologize for the incomprehensible post. If you are a Notre Dame fan – thank you for the classy way that your…
Duke Energy has been planning to build a couple of large coal fired power plants near Charlotte. The project, which Duke officially calls the Cliffside Steam Station Modernization includes building two “state of the art” 800 MWe coal fired steam plants and decommissioning four small plants with a total capacity of 198 MWe that are…
I have spent the last few hours reading some interesting, sometimes detailed articles about nuclear power in India, Texas, Vermont and South Carolina. I also re-read a thought provoking article about how the neo-cons “killed” nuclear power. Though the author of that article used the word “killed”, I think she would agree that it is…
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